Robert Tolksdorf was professor for computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin and led the group on Networked Information Systems. I collect art since 2006, amongst these drawings by Mark Lombardi. My personal and professional interests intertwine at this specific point since I'm interested in network analysis as a means to find out about the semantics of information network and Lombardi works are networks that encode a certain view on the world. With that, it seemed straightforward to me to start Lombardi Networks. With any comments on the site please use Wordpress or mail me at tolk@ag-nbi.de

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Since we had to merge all networks into one for measuring anyway, it was simple to convert it into JSON format and to visualize it. By this, we have synthesized the largest Lombardi network ever. An interesting observation is, that …Continue reading →

For every drawing we now include statistics on the degrees in the network. In the Network analysis page, we also show the distributions for the union of all drawings that we digitized and for a union in which aliases names …Continue reading →

For each drawing, we can try to automatically derive the start and end date of the narration by two ways. We can look at the title of the work, these often include year ranges. We can also look into the …Continue reading →